How much did UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA grant in FY2023?

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA reported 39 grants totaling $775,730,369 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA based?

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is based in CA.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

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· Public charity

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

The central mission of the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit.

$776M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$1.7M

Largest

01What you fund

0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Community Improvement$5.2MHealth$2.8MEducation$480kHuman Services$437kYouth Development$421kArts & Culture$243kPhilanthropy$211kFood & Nutrition$83kEnvironment$55kOther$707k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

aollegalrefugeesfocusimmigrationthousandslaw enforcement

2020

grassrootsproyectocivic engagementurbandesign-buildparkshealthier

2021

medicalvisionsee schedulegirlsservesensureboyle heights

2022

utlize innovativeinnovative collaborationcollaboration mediamedia reducereduce fosterfoster unemploymentunemployment homelessnes

2023

watercorporation organizedexclusivelyrevenueaffiliatesencouragebenefit corporation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k5 grants · $35k
$10k–50k32 grants · $638k
$250k+2 grants · $2.2M

$17,500

Median grant

States reached

$13.8B

Total assets

Largest grants

USC HEALTH SYSTEM$1,708,044
Community Partners$498,280
Project Scientist$35,000
Community Services Unlimited Inc$32,880
OUR HOUSE Grief Support Center$30,400
Jazz Hands for Autism$28,500
Fulcrum Arts$25,000
Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Education Program$25,000
School on Wheels Inc$24,500
Collective REMAKE$24,000
24th STreet Theatre Company$22,400
Living Advantage Inc$21,950
SOLA Community Peace Center$21,600
Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley$21,000
Rise Education Fund$21,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $437k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.3M · 35 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.3M

$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%

+31%

Still filing today

94%

81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TT
TXT TEENS EXPLORING TECHNOLOGY
6× · 2018–2023 · $5.1M · revenue +278%
AH
American Heart Association
3× · 2018–2021 · $676k · revenue +14%
CS
Community Services Unlimited Inc
6× · 2018–2023 · $184k · revenue +750%

Funded once

CH
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +12%
GF
GLENDALE FIRE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $43k
YG
YWCA Greater Los Angeles
one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue -48%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

Transform schools to revolutionize school systems to empower all students with a high-quality education.

Education

Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture

United Way Inc

We can accomplish more together than alone. by combining community power, (cont. on sch. o) donations and new solutions to long standing challenges we can support neighbors on a pathway from poverty to prosperity.

Philanthropy

Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.

Employment

Communities in Schools of Los Angeles

Through a school-based coordinator, we strategically align and deliver needed resources empowering students to stay in school and achieve in life

Youth Development

Los Angeles Business Council

The los angeles business council uniting the power of business with the power of government for education and advocacy to promote environmental and economic sustainability.

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's vision: a thriving region for all

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Los Angeles College Prep Academy

Public charter school offering college preparatory education to students in northeast l.a.

Education

Los Angeles County Medical Association

Lacma is at the forefront of medicine in la county to ensure that members are represented in the areas of public policy, government relations and physician well-being. lacma's solemn duty is to preserve and protect the noble pursuit of…

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Healthcare La Ipa

Health care la ipa's (hcla) mission is to provide community-based providers in los angeles county with a managed, integrated healthcare delivery system to serve their communities in an organized, efficient, compassionate and financially…

Health

Latino Business Chamber of Greater La

To facilitate economic structures and policy initiatives that empower Latino business development and foster economic growth across Los Angeles.

Human Services

Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles General Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Trauma Informed La. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%2/79

the rest of the field

13%

6,640/49,737

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/68

Grantees still filing

52/68

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Improvement$5,201,489Health$2,801,159Other$1,056,026Education$480,080Human Services$436,628Youth Development$420,830Arts & Culture$242,530

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA50.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · United Way Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Endowment · Liberty Hill Foundation · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · The California Wellness Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Collective REMAKE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 830769986 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Collective REMAKE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 38% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to University of Southern California?

Find your warmest path to University of Southern California through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to University of Southern California?

More from the funding graph

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to University of Southern California?

More from the funding graph